SkullStore Founder Ben Lovatt: “I Sell Dead People”

He puts the “museum” in mausoleum. His exhibits look like exhumations. And by his own admission, he sells dead people!

Hot off the heels of his photo that went viral back in April showing a mama bat skeleton and her in-womb baby skeleton, Ben Lovatt—the morbid mastermind behind Toronto’s SkullStore Oddity Shop and the (less twisted) Prehistoria Natural History Centre—stopped by Reddit to talk about the odd life he gives creatures after they’ve passed, writing, “If you’ve got a dead whale on your beach or a dead tiger at your zoo, my team can butcher it down to a skeleton and mount it back up!”

Of course, you don’t get to run a cranial-themed Canadian oddity shop if your knowledge of body processing is only skin-deep.

In his AMA (Ask Me Anything), he tells redditors about the oddest aspects of running an oddity shop, why he’s not creeped out by owning “parts of dead human beings,” and the strange tale of how he got a “price on [his] head in Cameroon.”